Skipping the slink freeze and work on Debian 2.2 instead
Hi,
I'm getting frustrated about the freeze of slink that didn't take
place yet. It was announced three weeks ago.
Even worse we, the producers of Debian, are screwing the system
by uploading unstable packages into the unstable distribution. Under
normal circumstances this would be the appropriate action. In this
case it causes problems, since this so called "unstable" distribution
ought to be frozen three weeks ago and thus should stabilize and not
unstable.
We have created a lot of unmet dependencies by uploading unstable
packages into the to-be-frozen distribution. This means that a lot of
packages have to be re-compiled or re-packaged before slink can be
released - or these package have to be removed.
The following list of packages depends on ncurses3.4 which has been
replaced by libncurses4 or something like that.
Unmet dependency: ncurses3.4
rpncalc, iptraf, tcsh, jed, tinyirc, libgpmg1-dev, clisp, xspread,
statserial, xlife, joe, procps, cam, libggi-target-terminfo, aalib1,
cwnn, mysql-base, ispell, pspp, scottfree, sabre, umich-ldap-utils,
libcurses-perl, ircii, ytree, amanda-server, nvi, guile1.3, telnetd,
lprng, sysutils, gom, elm-me+, taper, hfsutils-tcltk, xterm, info,
kwnn, pacman, yabasic, tsiag, empire-lafe, libtclobjc1, less, zsh,
fweb, typist, xview-examples, eggdrop, xwpe, kterm, cti-ifhp, talk,
minicom, socks4-clients, jove, tguile1.3, screen, lde, wnn,
xbase-clients, gmod, python-base, bitchx, jered, pdmenu, kiss,
ucblogo, cftp, libgpmg1, jless, the, psmisc, worklog, rscheme,
ytalk, alsautils, tnt, bibindex, trn, epic, af, sirc, mgt, ee,
metamail, pente, ax25-utils, nethack, telnet, amanda-client, le,
netdiag, awe-midi, mc, nn, aumix, netris, rc, playmidi,
bsdmainutils, sc, tf, swi-prolog, gnushogi
The list can be extended:
Unmet dependency: xdevel
yorick-dev
Unmet dependency: netscape
xswallow
Unmet dependency: jdk1.1-runtime|jdk-shared|jdk-static
vrwave
Unmet dependency: slang0.99.38
urlview, slsc, most, ae
Unmet dependency: unzip
vrwave, debian-cd
# Btw. we should remove debian-cd from slink since it does not
# work for slink
Unmet dependency: slang0.99.38-pic
boot-floppies
Unmet dependency: mesag2
freewrl, xlockmore-gl
Unmet recommends: mesag2
geomview
Unmet recommends: geomview-contrib
geomview
Unmet recommends: gnupg
mutt
Unmet recommends: libguile3-doc
libguile3, tguile1.3
Unmet recommends: mailcrypt
crypt++el
This snapshot was made by a quick test of the Packages file of
slink/main. The script I used can be found at the following URL:
ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/tools/checkdeps
Richard Braakman has opened a more detailed page at
http://master.debian.org/~dark/lintian/reports/depcheck.html
It will take quite a while to fix and test all these packages before
we can release slink. Therefore we should consider to skip the slink
release or make the darn freeze *now* and work on fixing these
packages without introducing more instabilities.
Regards,
Joey
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